Professional Consulting Engineering Career - Senior Project Manager CDM Smith Employee Review

4.0
6 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Professional environment with pathways to development and growth. The work is rewarding and challenging and never boring. The compensation and benefits are commensurate with a mid sized professional engineering company.

Cons

In order to move up you will have to either relocate or travel an extraordinary amount, taking time away from family and friends. The hours can be long and ravel will be more and more as you advance.

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5.0
22 Apr 2026
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Pros

Lots of training and opportunities

Cons

Company structure can be confusing

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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a 5-star review! It was great to have you as an employee and wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
2.0
18 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hybrid schedule is very nice and starting salary is high for early career engineers.

Cons

The main people running the company are not engineers and you can tell. They are all focused on utilization with rates often set at 97% or higher. This had led to my supervisor asking/telling me to not charge company required trainings. As an early engineer it really feels like they don't want to invest in me and only care about their bottom line. If you are an early career structural engineer you will also not get any meaningful work until you've been with the company for at least 5 years. The senior engineers do not trust you and will only give you grunt work.

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